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Husband-and-Wife Authors Peter Ward and Rae André give employees advice on how to advance by skillfully managing their bosses. Workers, for example, should not settle for the brief, face-to-face praisings that one-minute managers dish out. They should ask for the praise in writing, and then use it to help land promotions or higher...
Amazing grace, indeed, that saved a wretch like the one we are shown. And amazing (if possibly unconscious) patronization on the part of the film's creators. There is none of the affectionate respect for working-class life and values that marked the similar, and far superior, Norma Rae, nor any of that film's sense of felt reality either. One senses that Nichols and his colleagues are reporting on a sociological field trip, that they made no instinctive emotional connections with Silkwood's milieu...
...that dares its audience to keep a straight face. And there are rewards for passing this strenuous test. Quest's canvas is colorfully daubed with great woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, and humanized with a prototype love affair between Naoh (Everett McGill), the chief Ulam, and Ika (Rae Dawn Chong, the daughter of Cheech's partner), a chatty, chalk-dipped girl from a more advanced tribe. McGill brings so much conviction to Naoh's desperate attempts first to keep the old fire alive, and then to create a new one, that he stands as on-screen...
...Rae Cohn...
...they are established stars, pay a price. They may be denied sympathetic or leading roles. They may be consigned to comedy, on the presumption that audiences think fat is funny. They may, like James Coco, grow "tired of getting scripts that were all fat jokes." They may, like Charlotte Rae, find it "depressing" to be offered lots of characters specifically described as fat. And offstage they worry as much about health, vigor and appearance as the well rounded in other walks of life. But in a notoriously unstable business, fat actors and actresses have a trademark that steadily gets them...